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R. L. STEVENS. COMBINED TBLESGOPE, MIGROSUOPB, AND CAMERA. No. 545,743. Patented Sept ZZoZzer L 523606713.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

ROBERT Il. STEVENS, OF VINELAND, NEW' JERSEY.

COMBINED TELESCOPE, MICROSCOPE, AND CAMERA.

SPECIFICATION i'lorming part of Letters Patent No. 545,743, dated September 3, 1895.

Application filed October 3D, 1894. Serial No. 527,430. iNo model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Rennen L. STEVENS, residing at Vineland, in the county of Cumberland and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and Improved Combined Telescope, Microscope, and Camera, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to certain improvements in the ordinary telescope, which will render such instrument capable of use as an ordinary telescope, a microscope, and as a photographic camera, the detailed construction of such improvementsbeing specially' arranged to adapt the instrument for use as a photographic camera.

The main object of my invention is to pro-4 vide a telescope so constructed and arranged for connection with-certain attachable parts that it can be adjusted for use as a photo-l graphic camera in which the sensitized plates or films can be connected therewith without necessitating the use of a dark-room or a' which will effectively serve for their intended 'on a somewhat enlarged scale.

purposes.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l isa llongitudinal section of an ordinary telescope equipped with my improved attachments. Fig. 2 is a similar view of a portion thereof Fig. 3 is a cross-section of the same, taken on the line, 3 3, Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a detail viewillustrat ing one form of slide or plate holder. v

A indicates ran ordinary telescope, which has the usual'object-glass end piece B, the eye or microscopic end section Cfand the intermediate or object-focusing'sections -D and E. At the point at which the fizredjfocal point of the microscopic section C- appears when the said section C is drawn out to'its fullest extent the section I) is slitted, as' shownat D', and provided with apertures d' d opposite the slit D', as most clearly shown in Fig. 3. At this point it should'be stated thatffrom practical experimenting I have found by"rst extending the telescope to its full' length and then 'manipulating the sections B and'Esol l as to bring the object into a sharp focus and inserting a plate in the slit the picture Orobject sighted will appear sharp and distlnct upon such plate at the. focal point F, and as every telescope having a'microscopic end Y piece has al ixedfocal point when such end piece is drawn out it follows that the picture or object can be sightedv 'and brought into a' proper focus at 'the point F wit-hout4 the use of the ground glass usually employed for Y' .ing g atene side, which is adapted to-be held closed byaslide-plate g. So far as described it will be readily apparent that after the section C is drawn out to its'full extent and the object-glass adjusted to bring Vthe view into a properv f'cus the cap orslides a. b at the object or eye ends are closed.- The plate.-

vholder G is'then inserted-,in the slot D with its opening facing the object-glass. Its slide is then withdrawn, after which the cap or slide over the object end is momentarilyl removed andreturned. The slide in the plateholder is then returned andthe plate-holder removed, the plate being afterward developed and fixed in the usual manner.

From the' foregoing description, taken Yin connection-with the drawings, itis thought the novel advantages of myy invention will readily appear. It will be seenvbyA their use that I provide a s inglefinstrument' capable of use as' atelescope, microscope, or camera.

vHaving thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire :to secure by Letters Pat- 1. The improvedfinstrument,l comprising the telescopic sectiouathe outerv one :having an obje'etfglass, theinnerone hagvingfthe eye piece, and one of the-iutermediateones haw,

ing a pocket o r slit 'fforl'reeeiving a plateholder when' 'the inneror -eyefsection isl extended, -saidpocket onslit bei'ugarr'anged to receive 'a' sensitized plate holder all arranged substantially as shown and for the purposes described.

rf 2 .'A,combined telescope and cameracompriing am extomsiblo inodyportion having an. tiaiiy as shown and for the purposes doobjeot glass at one end, o, telescope comieoscribed. 'tion therewith having au eye or microscope r end piece, am. intermediate section having a ROBERT L' s FEVENS 5 fixed foooi point, and having iis body portion provided with o, plato receiving pocket o1 siii: im lino with auch fixed focal point, substan- Witnesses:

IsAAo E. JOHNSON, IDA- J. BAKER. 

